| API Platform |
NHS England Digital platform route for NHS APIs and developer access. |
| Be Part of Research |
National Institute for Health and Care Research service for finding and volunteering for health and care research; presented through an NHS login-enabled web integration in the NHS App architecture. |
| Core national services |
National information, guidance, signposting, profile, health-choice, research, prevention, and messaging functions presented through the NHS App using public web, authenticated web, link-out, account, profile, or national API routes rather than a Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) clinical-system connection. This is narrower than the broader category of NHS App-presented services. |
| Dependant |
In this wiki, a family member or other associated person whose NHS App access should be analysed from their own age, GP registration, NHS account, and proxy / linked-profile state rather than assumed from the service person's DPHC status. |
| Defence Global Practice |
MOD route associated with DPHC Overseas [DPHC(O)] healthcare for parts of the armed-forces community. |
| Defence Medical Command (DMedC) |
MOD command identity established from HQ Defence Medical Services (DMS) in 2026. |
| Defence Primary Healthcare |
MOD primary healthcare context for armed-forces personnel and some associated patient groups. |
| Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) |
MOD electronic integrated healthcare record source for primary healthcare and some MOD specialist care in the reviewed FOI evidence. |
| DMICP |
Defence Medical Information Capability Programme. |
| DMedC |
Defence Medical Command. |
| DMS |
Defence Medical Services. |
| DPHC |
Defence Primary Healthcare. |
| DPHC Firmbase |
Domestic UK MOD Defence Primary Healthcare care model. |
| DPHC(O) |
MOD Defence Primary Healthcare overseas care model. |
| Directory of Services |
The Urgent and Emergency Care Directory of Services used by NHS 111 online to identify locally commissioned services appropriate to the assessed need. |
| Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) |
Enterprise Master Patient Index, an identity-resolution layer relevant to the CORTISONE / InterSystems evidence boundary. |
| Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) |
Electronic Prescription Service. |
| Find NHS services near you |
Current NHS App label for the NHS Service Search journey. It can use postcode or device location to find services such as dentists, pharmacies, hospitals, urgent care, and GP surgeries. A search result does not prove service eligibility, acceptance, capacity, or DPHC representation. |
| Five Case Model |
HM Treasury business-case framework covering strategic, economic, commercial, financial, and management dimensions. In this project it is a completeness test for the IRTB(P), not the IRTB(P) heading structure. |
| GP-filed document view |
Route family for documents filed into a GP record and exposed through NHS App GP health-record access. It is separate from provider-held Patient Engagement Portal (PEP) documents and from GP-filed result views. |
| GP-filed result view |
Route family for GP or hospital-ordered results filed into a GP record and exposed through NHS App GP health-record access, subject to GP-system and clinical release controls. It is separate from PEP results-release routes. |
| GP Connect Patient Facing APIs |
NHS GP Connect APIs for patient-facing GP record, repeat-prescription, and permission use cases. |
| GP Connect Professional APIs |
GP Connect APIs and messaging patterns for authorised health and care systems, including professional direct-care workflows. |
| GOV.UK Notify |
Government Digital Service platform for sending email, SMS and letters from public services through templates, bulk tools or an API. It does not itself provide the NHS App message channel. NHS Notify may use GOV.UK Notify as one communication supplier. |
| Health Connect |
InterSystems healthcare integration engine; in this wiki it is relevant to Health Connect / Integration Platform evidence but is not yet proven as the named CORTISONE Integration Platform component. |
| Health advice and guidance |
NHS.UK public information covering health conditions, medicines, healthy living, and next actions. It is separate from e-Referral Service Advice and Guidance, which is a professional-to-professional workflow. |
| HealthShare Unified Care Record (UCR) |
InterSystems shared-care / longitudinal-record product relevant to CORTISONE patient-data analysis. |
| Interface Mechanism 1 (IM1) |
Interface Mechanism 1. |
| IM1 Auth Proxy Service |
NHS England partner-onboarding label for an IM1 authentication proxy service route. Treat it as an onboarding route label unless a source defines the exact implementation. |
| IM1 Pairing |
Supplier pairing route for integrating with principal GP clinical systems through Interface Mechanism 1. |
| IM1 PFS Auth |
In-development Interface Mechanism 1 patient-facing authentication route for creating an IM1 session to access Patient-Facing APIs. |
| Interface Mechanism 1 |
NHS England Digital API standards and supplier-specific interface route for integration with principal GP clinical systems, including EMIS Web and TPP SystmOne supplier interfaces in the reviewed source set. |
| Integration Platform |
Programme CORTISONE term for the integration layer; Health Connect may be relevant integration tooling, but current public evidence does not separately prove it is the named CORTISONE component. |
| IRTB(P) |
Issue, Recommendation(s), Timing, Background and Presentation staff-paper format. Public MOD sources confirm the format family and historical Defence examples; the retained local document defines this project's continuous layout and visual treatment. The current internal/local template, security marking, staffing route and approval authority still require confirmation. |
| Linked profile |
NHS App profile relationship that lets one person manage selected health services for another person through their own NHS App account after GP-practice setup. |
| Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) |
Message Exchange for Social Care and Health, an NHS message-exchange route used by several NHS services and onboarding routes. |
| Model Interface Licence (MIL) |
Model Interface Licence. |
| Minor |
A person under 18; for NHS App own access and proxy-access analysis, the key public NHS source bands are under 11, 11 to 16, age 13+ own-access setup, and 16+ adult/proxy handling. |
| Model Interface Licence |
Interface Mechanism 1 agreement artefact recorded in the reviewed NHS England Digital pairing evidence. |
| National Data Opt-Out |
National service that lets a person decide whether confidential patient information can be used for research and planning. The choice is recorded against the NHS number on Spine and can be managed through the NHS App or other channels. |
| NHS account |
The account used to access the NHS App and other NHS online services. |
| NHS App |
Patient-facing app and web route for NHS services. |
| NHS App-presented service |
A service visible from the NHS App but supplied by another national, provider, or third-party system through an API, responsive web integration, or link-out. |
| NHS Blood and Transplant |
NHS special health authority responsible for blood and transplantation services and the NHS Organ Donor Register. |
| NHS Health A to Z |
Current NHS App label for public NHS information about health conditions, symptoms, treatments, medicines, and related guidance. It is separate from e-Referral Service professional Advice and Guidance. |
| NHS login |
Identity and authentication capability associated with NHS account access. |
| My NHS GP |
NHS roadmap label for AI-assisted triage and data-driven routes that guide people to an appropriate service and support appointment access. It is strategic/roadmap language, not a current DPHC feature. |
| NHS Notify |
NHS messaging and orchestration service for sending communications by NHS App message, email, SMS, or letter, using Personal Demographics Service (PDS) for contact-detail and contactability checks. It may use GOV.UK Notify as a communication supplier, but it has its own sender integration and onboarding route. |
| NHS Organ Donor Register |
NHS Blood and Transplant's authoritative record of organ donation decisions. The NHS App uses an API to present and manage a user's decision. |
| NHS Pathways |
National clinical decision-support content used to assess, triage, and direct people through NHS 111, NHS 111 online, 999, and other urgent-care settings. |
| NHS 111 online |
Web-based urgent-care triage service for people in England aged 5 or over, presented through the public website and an NHS login-enabled NHS App web integration. It uses NHS Pathways and the Directory of Services. |
| Native NHS App code |
iOS or Android implementation inside the mobile application. Do not use native to describe every service presented through the hybrid NHS App. |
| Organisation Data Service (ODS) |
Organisation Data Service, the NHS organisation-identifier service. |
| Online consultation system |
Named NHS App-integrated web service through which a patient may send a GP practice a medical query or an administrative request such as a letter, fit note, test-result query, referral request, or contact-detail update. Availability depends on supplier, practice configuration, and workflow. |
| Patient Care Aggregator |
NHS England service, also known as Wayfinder, that aggregates secondary-care referrals and bookings for display through the NHS App. |
| Patient Engagement Portal (PEP) |
Patient-facing provider or supplier portal; in Wayfinder, a secondary-care portal that can return booking data and receive NHS App deep links for appointment details and management. |
| PDS |
Personal Demographics Service, the national electronic database of NHS patient demographic details. |
| PEP |
Patient Engagement Portal. |
| PEP appointment or booking function |
Provider-portal route for appointment detail, booking, change, cancellation, or deep-link behaviour where the portal supports it. It is not evidence of documents or results unless the source says so. |
| PEP document route |
Provider-portal route for provider-held letters, forms, questionnaires, discharge summaries, outcome letters, or other clinical correspondence. It is not evidence of PEP results-release or GP-record result visibility. |
| PEP results-release route |
Provider-portal route for releasing provider-held test results through a PEP or NHS App-connected digital route, with clinical release, timing, suppression, or override controls. It is not evidence of GP-record result visibility or provider documents. |
| Pairing and Integration Pack |
Interface Mechanism 1 supplier-specific integration pack used during pairing and onboarding. |
| Partner onboarding |
NHS England onboarding and assurance route covering service-specific questions, clinical safety, data protection, technical assurance, information security, and connection agreements for supported APIs and services. |
| Personal health record |
Named provider or partner record integrated with the NHS App that may expose care plans, provider messages, trackers, patient-contributed data, medicines, documents, results, imaging, or appointments. Its feature set is not a universal NHS App baseline. |
| Primary healthcare (PHC) |
Primary healthcare. In this wiki, DPHC PHC appointments are a separate evidence category from NHS secondary healthcare appointments. |
| Primary Care Registration Management (PCRM) |
Primary Care Registration Management, the NHS back-end service that manages the formal GP-registration process and updates registered-GP state in PDS. Its stated service coverage includes DMS, but that does not prove DPHC practice configuration or NHS App availability. |
| Programme Cortisone / CORTISONE |
MOD programme for a new armed-forces digital medical-record system intended to integrate with the NHS. Preserve source wording where cited: GOV.UK uses Programme Cortisone and Programme CORTISONE, while the 2025 annual report uses Op CORTISONE. |
| Proxy access |
GP-practice-managed access that lets a family member, carer, parent, guardian, or other proxy use their own account to manage selected services for another person. |
| Register with a GP surgery |
National connected service that lets a person apply to an ordinary NHS GP practice. It uses practice catchment/acceptance and NHS-record matching and may change the registered-GP and record-transfer state. In this wiki it is a DPHC registration-transition control, not evidence of DPHC GP-practice equivalence. |
| Same-GP-practice requirement |
NHS England Digital proxy-access condition, in the reviewed NHS App route, that the proxy user and the person cared for are both registered at the same GP practice. |
| Service Conformance Assessment List (SCAL) |
Service Conformance Assessment List. |
| Spine Directory Service (SDS) |
Spine Directory Service. |
| Secondary healthcare (SHC) |
Secondary healthcare, used in this wiki for NHS hospital and specialist-care routes such as hospital appointments, referral pathways, clinical correspondence, and related provider services. |
| Service Conformance Assessment List |
Interface Mechanism 1 conformance artefact used in the reviewed pairing and assurance process. |
| Spine |
NHS national infrastructure supporting services and information exchange. |
| Spine Directory Service |
NHS Spine directory route used in the reviewed registered-GP referral / booking guidance for finding a registered GP provider endpoint. |
| Spine Secure Proxy (SSP) |
Security and routing pattern used by some GP Connect professional APIs. |
| SSP |
Spine Secure Proxy. |
| UCR |
HealthShare Unified Care Record in this wiki's CORTISONE / InterSystems evidence context. Use the longer product phrase unless a source or local sentence has already defined the abbreviation. |
| Wayfinder |
Name used for the NHS Patient Care Aggregator / NHS App secondary-care referral and booking aggregation route. |